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Interactive Stories and Motivation to Read in the Raft Dyslexia Fluency Tutor

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Improving motivation to read is an important step toward improving reading fluency among children with dyslexia. We describe a test of the Raft dyslexia fluency tutor which dynamically generates an interactive story by assembling pre-written scene templates in response to user-chosen plot events. Results suggest that interactivity improved voluntary reading, relative to non-interactive versions of the story.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Arthur Ward, Olga Medvedeva & Rebecca Crowley

  2. Total Learning Centers, Wexford, PA, USA

    Carol Utay

  3. Learning Research Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Margaret McKeown

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  1. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Seikei University, Musashino-shi, 180-8633, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Department of Computer Science and Program for Technocultural Studies, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, 95616, Davis, CA, U.S.A.

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  3. Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 N. High SOE-3, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

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Ward, A., McKeown, M., Utay, C., Medvedeva, O., Crowley, R. (2012). Interactive Stories and Motivation to Read in the Raft Dyslexia Fluency Tutor. In: Nakano, Y., Neff, M., Paiva, A., Walker, M. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_27

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